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Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise of Index Investing and the 'Renegades' Who Ushered It In

Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise of Index Investing and the 'Renegades' Who Ushered It In

FromThe Long View


Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise of Index Investing and the 'Renegades' Who Ushered It In

FromThe Long View

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Nov 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our guest this week is Robin Wigglesworth. Robin is the Financial Times' global finance correspondent based in Oslo, Norway. He covers investing in markets with a focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing. He joined the FT as a Gulf correspondent in June 2008. Before that, he was a Nordic economics and politics correspondent for Bloomberg News. Robin is a graduate of City, University of London and received his master's in history of international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Robin is here to discuss his new book, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.BackgroundBioTrillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance ForeverHistory of Indexing“Louis Bachelier: An Underappreciated Revolutionary,” historyofdatascience.com, June 3, 2021.Paul SamuelsonEfficient Market HypothesisRex SinquefieldDean LeBaronMac McQuownJack BogleJohn BrennanDimensional Fund Advisors Dan WheelerLarry FinkEugene FamaHarry MarkowitzBill SharpeBaby BellsTechnologyCowles Foundation for Research in Economics“Can Stock Market Forecasters Forecast?” by Alfred Cowles, yale.edu, 1933.The Beginning of ETFs“Passive Attack: The Story of a Wall Street Revolution,” by Robin Wigglesworth, FT.com, Dec. 19, 2018.“All That Drama About Fixed-Income ETFs Was Overplayed,” by Robin Wigglesworth, FT.com, April 21, 2020.Nate Most
Released:
Nov 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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